Ploughshares and Pruning-hooks

O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum,

lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:

veni, et salva hominem,

quem de limo formasti.

O Ruler of the nations, and their desire,

the cornerstone making both one:

Come and save the human race,

which you fashioned from clay.

He shall judge between the nations,

and shall arbitrate for many peoples;

they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,

and their spears into pruning-hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war anymore.

Isaiah 2:4

All photographs by Baya Clare, CSJ unless otherwise noted.